# meaning of "rubber biscuit"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 14, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752 "2002-12-14T17:47:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752/1 "2002-12-14T17:47:26Z")
The song by the Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit - does it have any meaning at all or is it just nonsense?
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### Author:  [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752/2 "2002-12-14T17:57:09Z")
I’ve heard of “lung” biscuits, but never rubber…
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### Author:  [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752/3 "2002-12-14T18:18:48Z")
[http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/blues\_brothers/definitive\_collection/rubber\_biscuit/](http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/blues_brothers/definitive_collection/rubber_biscuit/)
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752/4 "2002-12-14T18:23:09Z")
Actually, the song dates from about 1956, and was originally recorded by the Chips, a doo-wop group from Brooklyn, NY. The original version has turned up on a number of novelty compilations, although I don’t think any are currently in print.
My take is, it’s just a guy trying to make a joke out of the fact that he’s got no money to buy some food. The tag is: whattaya want for nothin’…a rubber biscuit?
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752/5 "2002-12-15T02:09:02Z")
Then there’s a ricochet biscuit:
“A ricochet biscuit is the kind of a biscuit that’s supposed to bounce back off the wall into your mouth. If it don’t bounce back… you go hungry!”
THE BLUES BROTHERS, Briefcase Full of Blues (which closes with the line “What da ya want for nothing? … a rubber biscuit?” )
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### Author:  [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752/6 "2002-12-15T04:26:20Z")
It’s what the Pillsbury Doughboy uses when he’s practicing safe sex…oh wait, that would be a “biscuit rubber”.
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### Author:  [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752/7 "2002-12-15T04:30:01Z")
Gack. There’s a shot at my favorite bar called a ‘rubber biscuit’. Absolutely disgusting. I would rather eat a rubber biscuit than drink that again.
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### Author:  [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-rubber-biscuit/142752/8 "2002-12-15T20:18:15Z")
Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? A wish sandwich is the kind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you, [heh heh heh], you WISH you had some meat!